D is for Deadbeat

Alvin Limardo asks Kinsey Millhone to deliver a cashier's check to a 15yr old and she's wondering why he wants her to do it since it's so simple. But since she has bills to pay she does it anyway. Then his retainer check bounces and she goes looking for him and finds out his real name is John Daggett and he's an ex-con.

He's got 2 wives, a drinking problem and more than a handful of people mad at him and ready to kill him. So, now she's out $400 and in hot pursuit of him. Then he turns up dead and she starts getting worried. How is she supposed to deliver this check and how is she supposed to get justice for a man that everyone hated and no one misses?


But in true Kinsey fashion she continues the job and does both those things...but not without angering a lot of people along the way.


She always manages to catch her man, but sometimes she cuts it a little close and puts herself in serious danger and she continues to do it over and over again. She also intentionally pushes buttons, but either way, she gets what she needs.